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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

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Questioner: Gary Peters

Narrative: ConcealmentHarm: TerrorismDesign feature: Content Algorithm
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Gary Peters

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionPeters asks for total QAnon content views/shares before and after Meta's August 2020 policy change, and how many 2017–2020 views/shares were driven by algorithmic recommendation.

ResponseMeta says it did not track QAnon view/share counts before or after the policy change (only removal counts of Pages/Groups/accounts), and does not track how much QAnon exposure came from algorithmic recommendation.